Obs. rare. [f. SOT sb.1] Foolishness, folly, stupidity.
1569. Newton, Ciceros De Senectute, i b. Suche is the foolishe sottage and peruerse ouerthwartnes of waywarde people.
1596. Fitz-Geffrey, Sir F. Drake (1881), 29. Hard yron-ages death-declining sottage.